Ironic, given that there's no computer in his home office--Patterson writes all his novels in longhand.

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He loved the sheer act of it, writing every morning and always in longhand.

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Pope Benedict, who prefers to write everything in longhand, will not himself be involved with touch screens or keyboards.

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"I wish I'd kept it all in longhand, " says Mr. Momaday, who is 78 and lives in Florida now.

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He shunned cell phones and pagers, and wrote drafts of his opinions in longhand, while a court-issued computer gathered dust in his chambers.

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I'll be in my office with my frizzy hair writing longhand.

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And I actually write my books a lot by longhand.

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Judge Jackson--who writes in longhand and discovered PCs about 30 seconds ago--says Microsoft has been inquisitioning innovation and kicking customers in the groin since it acquired its monopoly status around 1990.

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He also resisted other forms of contemporary technology and convenience, holding out against the cell phone and e-mail and continuing to write his opinions and dissents in longhand, using a fountain pen.

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